What's Your Learning Style? -quiz

[greg]

Try out this quiz- 20 questions


http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml?fbclid=IwAR0WNUVmegciMx_P_6OqJtd0lQ6I60FmFuO5m0b96x9__luv4GUCGzhY5AM

Your Scores:

Auditory: 50%
Visual: 10%
Tactile: 40%
You are an Auditory learner! Check out the information below, or view all of the learning styles.

Auditory
If you are an auditory learner, you learn by hearing and listening. You understand and remember things you have heard. You store information by the way it sounds, and you have an easier time understanding spoken instructions than written ones. You often learn by reading out loud because you have to hear it or speak it in order to know it.

As an auditory learner, you probably hum or talk to yourself or others if you become bored. People may think you are not paying attention, even though you may be hearing and understanding everything being said.

Here are some things that auditory learners like you can do to learn better.

Sit where you can hear.
Have your hearing checked on a regular basis.
Use flashcards to learn new words; read them out loud.
Read stories, assignments, or directions out loud.
Record yourself spelling words and then listen to the recording.
Have test questions read to you out loud.
Study new material by reading it out loud.
Remember that you need to hear things, not just see things, in order to learn well.

I had my doubts while I was taking the quiz, but this basically aligns with the learning aspect I was typed as by the OPS people (people who made a personality typing system that typed me)- they gave me: primary auditory, secondary kinesthetic (aka Tactile).

A thought: knowing this is one thing that is further informing me as to what strategies I should take with learning Japanese, which has been the most difficult challenge by far...

[greg]

Did I do this correctly? 

I mean, there is no wrong way to do it. 

Buuutt... whoa, that is insanely balanced. 

[Karl Henning]

Try out this quiz- 20 questions


http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml?fbclid=IwAR0WNUVmegciMx_P_6OqJtd0lQ6I60FmFuO5m0b96x9__luv4GUCGzhY5AM



I had my doubts while I was taking the quiz, but this basically aligns with the learning aspect I was typed as by the OPS people (people who made a personality typing system that typed me)- they gave me: primary auditory, secondary kinesthetic (aka Tactile).

A thought: knowing this is one thing that is further informing me as to what strategies I should take with learning Japanese, which has been the most difficult challenge by far...

As second-language learning goes, Japanese is easily the most difficult I've ever tried. And, yes, I gave up, decades ago.

[greg]

As second-language learning goes, Japanese is easily the most difficult I've ever tried. And, yes, I gave up, decades ago.

Interesting, I never knew that you had made an attempt before.
It certainly has an extremely disproportionate amount of people who start to learn vs. people who actually end up getting good.

I started studying about 17 years ago... most of those 17 years haven't been spent studying, and it's why I still am not good at it. But it's one of those things that I just can't give up on, so it'll take however long it takes to get good.

The FSI rates it on level 5 (top level) of most difficult world languages, in the same category as Chinese/Arabic/Korean, but Japanese is the only one in the group that they have this special asterisk showing that it is what they call "especially hard for native English speakers," so I guess it's their way of saying that it's the hardest.

[Mahlerian]

Interesting, I never knew that you had made an attempt before.
It certainly has an extremely disproportionate amount of people who start to learn vs. people who actually end up getting good.

I started studying about 17 years ago... most of those 17 years haven't been spent studying, and it's why I still am not good at it. But it's one of those things that I just can't give up on, so it'll take however long it takes to get good.

The FSI rates it on level 5 (top level) of most difficult world languages, in the same category as Chinese/Arabic/Korean, but Japanese is the only one in the group that they have this special asterisk showing that it is what they call "especially hard for native English speakers," so I guess it's their way of saying that it's the hardest.

The best thing for my Japanese learning was the experience of immersion. That gave me the foundation, and everything since has been building on it. Even though I've spent years reading it, though, there are still plenty of kanji I don't know, and the ones I know a few readings of still have readings in certain compounds that I don't know because they're irregular. Chinese and Korean don't have that issue.

What's Your Learning Style? The Results
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Your Scores:

Auditory: 55%
Visual: 25%
Tactile: 20%
You are an Auditory learner! Check out the information below, or view all of the learning styles.

Auditory
If you are an auditory learner, you learn by hearing and listening. You understand and remember things you have heard. You store information by the way it sounds, and you have an easier time understanding spoken instructions than written ones. You often learn by reading out loud because you have to hear it or speak it in order to know it.

As an auditory learner, you probably hum or talk to yourself or others if you become bored. People may think you are not paying attention, even though you may be hearing and understanding everything being said.

Here are some things that auditory learners like you can do to learn better.

Sit where you can hear.
Have your hearing checked on a regular basis.
Use flashcards to learn new words; read them out loud.
Read stories, assignments, or directions out loud.
Record yourself spelling words and then listen to the recording.
Have test questions read to you out loud.
Study new material by reading it out loud.
Remember that you need to hear things, not just see things, in order to learn well.

[greg]

The best thing for my Japanese learning was the experience of immersion. That gave me the foundation, and everything since has been building on it. Even though I've spent years reading it, though, there are still plenty of kanji I don't know, and the ones I know a few readings of still have readings in certain compounds that I don't know because they're irregular. Chinese and Korean don't have that issue.

Yeah, that's one of the biggest difficulties. The easiest way to explain how hard it is to non-Japanese learners is that Japanese people themselves can't read Japanese names they haven't seen before (they can only make educated guesses). So for foreigners getting into that... 

That, and I've realized it's just about useless to study any text without English translation side by side (which is something that is fine to do with a language like Spanish). Probably the same goes for languages that are so different from English. It really helps.

There was one line I saw while watching anime yesterday that I thought was so amusing because in English it was like 6 or 7 words, but in Japanese it was only one.

"I have to give it my all".
"Ganbaranakya."

[greg]

I think this whole test is based on this VARK idea.

However, when I take the official VARK test, the results are very, very different. Anyone get a very different result?
https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/



Kinesthetic is still high, but audio is way lower and visual is way higher. But the problem, I think, are these questions. I believe the first test I linked is more accurate.

I don't like discussing with people about things because I don't like talking with people much, and I don't like lectures because my mind wanders and I fidget a lot. So if you look at the questions, you can see how that drastically negatively affects that score.

Also, choosing the "charts/graphs" stuff is also due to practical reasons- you give the information much more quickly, and can reference it later.

But I do agree with the low read/write score... one giveaway is that usually I don't read just for the sake of enjoyment of reading, but rather to get information or enjoy a creative work. However, an audio/kinesthetic activity like just picking up an instrument and playing around with no end goal in mind is something I do very often.


Whatever score you get on kinesthetic is probably going to be accurate. The more I think about it, there's many things supporting me being fairly high kinesthetic... a few things I thought of:

-like I mentioned, the fidgeting... I can't sit still for long watching TV or movies, I literally always will pick up my guitar and start playing it because I have to have some sort of movement. Once I was watching the movie Bahubali part 2 in the theater, and if anyone knows how long Telugu movies are... well, near the end, as much as I was enjoying the movie, started having nearly uncontrollable muscle movements

-My favorite classes in high school/middle school were gym class, because I liked moving around and playing sports.

-pacing around when talking on the phone.

-constantly take breaks to walk around a lot while at work, in the past choosing work positions that allowed more free movement

-edit: also giving myself nosebleeds multiple times from aggressively rubbing nose without even thinking about it, and also I think the reason my eye is blood right the last few days is I probably rubbed that too hard (with contact in), too. 

(hopefully sitting still gets easier when you get older? i mean, how old do you have to get, i'm already old) 

My results:

Your learning preference:
Multimodal (VK)Share
People with your preference like:
different formats, graphs, diagrams, maps, interesting layouts, space, practical exercises, experiences, examples, case studies, trial and error, things that are real, ...


Your scores were:

Visual 13
Aural 7
Read/Write 1
Kinesthetic 15